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Operacja Burza (Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian: Operacija Oluja, Cyrillic script: Oпeрaциja Oлуja) kryptonim nadany dużej operacji wojskowej, przeprowadzonej przez Chorwackie wojsko wsparte przez armię BiH, w celu odzyskania kontroli nad terenami Chorwacji de facto >Repuliką Krainy< proklamowaną przez ludność serbską w 1991.[5] Operacja trwająca 84 godziny, była największą w europie odnotowaną ofensywą wojsk lądowych po i wojnie światowej[6] Rozpoczęła się krótko po świcie 4 sierpnia 1995 i zakończyła się całkowitym zwycięstwem taktycznym dla chorwackiej armii 4 dni później.
These forces had received instruction by a U.S.-based firm, Military Professional Resources Incorporated (MPRI), headed by retired general Carl Vuono, which provided (along with French Foreign Legion organized training camp in Šepurine near Zadar) mainly the commissioned-officers training, but had no significant intelligence activities or professional influence on senior Croatian military strategy and tactics.[7] Its engagement was approved by the U.S. government.[8]
Był prezydent stanów zjednoczonych Bill Clinton napisał we wspomnieniach o tym że wierzył że Serbowie mogą rozpocząć negocjacje pokojowe dopiero po doznaniu dotkliwych porażek na polu bitwy.[9] Negocjacje doprowadziły do podpisaniu układu z Dayton kończącego wojnę bałkańską (serio?)
Amerykański negocjator pokojowy z tego okresu Richard Holbrooke powiedział później "he realised how much the Croatian offensive in the Krajina profoundly changed the nature of the Balkan game and thus this diplomatic offensive."[10] Retired four-star General Wesley Clark, Director, Strategic Plans and Policy (J5) for the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and later Supreme Allied Commander Europe simply called it a turning point.[citation needed] After the Srebrenica Genocide, there were concerns over the recurrence of the massacre in the Bihać pocket area, where the population of Bosniaks was four times larger than in Srebrenica and which was surrounded and under attack by Bosnian Serb and Croatian Serb forces. Approximately 150,000 to 200,000[11] Serbs fled approaching Croat forces to Serb-held parts of Bosnia and Serbia. The European Union Special Envoy to the Former Yugoslavia Carl Bildt called it on 7 August 1995, "the most efficient ethnic cleansing we've seen in the Balkans."[12] The Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Bildt's assessment was "unfounded."[13] German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel released a statement expressing "regret" about the offensive but added, "We can't forget that the years of Serb aggression ... have sorely tried Croatia's patience."[14] The United States government called for "restraint," but said the military operation had been "provoked initially by a Krajina Serb attack on the Muslim enclave of Bihać."[14] The military operations by the army continued in Bosnia-Herzegovina under Operation Mistral. Three Croatian generals, Ante Gotovina, Ivan Čermak and Mladen Markač, alleged to have been involved in the planning and execution of Operation Storm, were indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and are on trial in the Hague on charges of operating a joint criminal enterprise for the purpose of permanently removing the Serb population from the Krajina by force and of crimes against humanity[15] The Croatian government maintained the operation was justified on the grounds that a sovereign state has the right to be in control of its own territory. The government also insisted that Croatian Serbs not involved in "war crimes" would be able to return to the area.[16] In Croatia, 5 August is celebrated as a national holiday, Victory and Homeland Thanksgiving and the day of Croatian defenders.